Former baseball star Curt Schilling was interviewed this morning on the Dennis & Callahan sports radio show on WEEI in Boston in the first such appearance since the demise of 38 Studios, the developer he founded. Boston.com quotes some of the conversation where Schilling spoke of investing all of his personal assets into the company while never a penny back out. He also says his former employees "have every right to be upset" as they were "blindsided" by the studio's closure after he promised a month or two of advance warning, admitting he "bombed on that one in epic fashion." He also describes the last ditch effort to save the company that failed because Rhode Island refused to go along with the plan, and addresses accusations that his acceptance of tax credits and loan guarantees from the state were hypocritical in light of his outspoken conservative viewpoints: "I don't know how that correlates to this. I donít have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses." Thanks JJ.

RollinThundr wrote on Jun 22, 2012, 22:02:Honestly 38 from the start just seemed bound for failure. I agree though, a company that size doesn't fit my definition of small business owner.

This is at the core of the partisan bickering -- the definition of "small business".

Common sense would tell you that to most people a small business is a company with a few dozen employees at most. Can you really call it a small business if you have 100 or more employees? However according to tax law, there are world spanning corporations with thousands of employees which qualify as a "small business". So, whenever someone uses those two words, what do they mean? Basically, it depends partly on the context and partly on which end of the political spectrum they reside on.